Ptarmigans are their principal food, and cold climates their favourite habitat.
The colour of Ptarmigans is perfectly suited to the northern solitudes they inhabit.
I had scarcely passed the limits of Helsingland, when I perceived a brace of Ptarmigans (Tetrao Lagopus) in the road, but could not get near enough to fire at them.
The poorest people only remain here as long as possible, for the sake of catching Ptarmigans (Tetrao Lagopus); which is done in the following manner.
Now as thePtarmigans come running along, for they seldom fly, they have no way to go but through these snares, and forty or fifty of them are frequently caught at a time.
I heard the note of some Ptarmigans (Tetrao Lagopus), which sounded like a kind of laughter.
All the hares and ptarmigans of his new district would behold him coming from afar and keep well out of his way, while he, poor creature, would never be able to spot them at all among the white snow-fields.
Once he had started a flock of ptarmigans, but in windy weather ptarmigans are very wild, and this flock flew so far that he was unable to discover them again after they had alighted.
The morning after the goose hunt two rabbits were found in Paul's snares and he was greatly elated at his success, and on the same day several ptarmigans and a black duck were killed by Dan, materially increasing their stock of provisions.
We've seen ducks andptarmigans everywhere we've been.
Tammas had told them they were certain to find large flocks of ptarmigans there, feeding upon the tender tops of the bushes.
Dan had not yet put in his appearance when Paul decided that theptarmigans were quite done.
He declined Paul's assistance in pitching the tent, and working with the skill of a woodsman soon had all in readiness for the night, a fire in the stove, and three ptarmigans stewing in the kettle.
Dan's hunting during this period brought them, besides the second porcupine, forty more ptarmigansand three snowshoe rabbits.
If the ptarmigans get the worst of it, then summer has won the game and fine weather may be expected to prevail through the winter.
If theptarmigans give way the summer has won the game and fine weather may be expected to prevail through the winter (nussueraqtung).
In autumn, when the storms begin and the long and dismal Arctic winter is at hand, the central Esquimaux divide themselves into two parties called the Ptarmigans and the Ducks.
The ptarmigans are the people born in winter, the ducks those born in summer.
The ducks take hold of one end, the ptarmigans of the other, then comes a tug-of-war.
Ideals were melting away, one after the other, and ptarmigans were not to be had under two crowns the brace.
He was evidently hungry, and was hunting ptarmigans himself.
I did not like the idea of the harmless ptarmigans being eaten by ermines and owls, so I raised my gun and knocked him over.
Then he added: "One day last fall as I was hunting for ptarmigans I saw in the distance a huge brown bear walking about and getting ready for his winter quarters.
There were roast ptarmigans stuffed with fine-chopped pork and bread, and the unwonted luxuries of butter and sugar--and then the plum pudding served with molasses for sauce.
Ptarmigans were plentiful, as were also arctic hares, and a white fox and one or two white owls were killed.
Finally the storm cleared, and then it was discovered that the ptarmigans and rabbits, which had been so plentiful and constituted their chief source of food supply, had disappeared as if by magic.
But when he took his gun and shot some ptarmigans one day, they gave him to understand that this was a wasteful use of ammunition, and showed him how they killed the birds with bow and arrow.
There were also three ptarmigans that Andy had shot during the day, and a rabbit they had taken from one of the traps.
The ptarmigans alone, a sort of rock-partridge peculiar to this latitude, did not flee the winter; it was easy to kill them, and there were enough to promise a perpetual supply of game.
Bell had just shot some ptarmigans and a white rabbit, the first harbinger of spring.
Then they were yellow and dirty, but now they are white as ptarmigans in winter.
Whenever the weather was fair, he walked with his dame over the moss-covered rocks of the neighborhood; and during winter killed Ptarmigans and Caribous, while his eldest son attended to the traps, and skinned the animals caught in them.
Few birds, he said, came round him in summer, but in winter thousands of Ptarmigans were killed, as well as great numbers of Gulls.
At our evening meal we ate the last of our ptarmigans and rabbit.
I looked where he pointed, and there on the rocks near George's feet lay a pile of ptarmigans and one small rabbit.
And when the ptarmigans were boiled what a glorious feast we had!
Ptarmigans are sent from Norway about the middle of January, and continue till March, but that depends upon the weather.
In previous years ptarmigans and spruce grouse had been so plentiful that they were easily killed when needed.
The stock of fresh meat, save a pair of geese and three pairs of ptarmigans reserved for a Christmas feast, was exhausted.
He killed three ptarmigans as he travelled, and the flesh of the ptarmigans made him strong to reach the lodge of White Brother of the Snow.
Wild geese and ducks upon the waters, and flocks of ptarmigans along the shores, gave promise of an abundance and variety of food.
Once a small flock of ptarmigans was seen along the willow brush that lined a stream.
The few ptarmiganskilled now and again were of small assistance.
With the end of February ptarmigans began to reappear among the willows along the river bank.
Shortly after the Eskimos left us we heard some ptarmigans clucking outside, and Easton knocked three of them over with Potokomik's rifle.
Reindeer, together with ptarmigans (Arctic grouse) and fish, form their chief food supply, with tea always when they can get it.
Ptarmigans in the early morning clucked on the river banks like chickens in a barnyard, and we saw some very large flocks of them.
Some geese and ptarmigans were killed and a good many of both kinds of birds were seen, as well as some ducks.
I scouted alone all day and in my wanderings came upon the first ptarmigans of the trip and shot one of them with my rifle.
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